CLINTON'S REPRISAL HITS IRAQ

US Demonstrates Tactics Used in "New World
Order" Again

President Clinton repeats the actions and
history of his predecessor, George Bush, in dealing with the Iraqi
situation. In his latest remarks regarding the reprisal against
Baghdad for their "aggression" in northern Iraq, Clinton states, "Our
missiles send the following message to Sadaam Hussein, when you abuse
your own people or threaten your neighbors YOU MUST PAY A PRICE."

While the statement is true, has Mr.
Clinton really considered the implications of his own words? The
truth of that statement will require a price much larger than the
leaders of this country may be willing to pay. In accordance with the
President's words, consider the debt which has accrued from the Gulf
War and prior to that, the Panamanian invasion.

"When you abuse your own people or THREATEN
YOUR NEIGHBORS."..... Let's consider what actually happened in an
earlier military action initiated by the United States. The people of
Panama were more than "threatened"; they experienced a full scale
military attack. The following account reveals far more than the US news
media reports did at the time of the invasion.

In a surprise and forceful attack, the US
military launched its invasion of Panama. Just after midnight,
December 20,1989, the aerial bombardment burst upon the sleeping
cities, hitting 27 targets in densely populated areas. Particularly
hard hit were the poor slum areas, El Chorillo and surrounding
neighborhoods, where an estimated 20,000 Panamanians lost their
homes. This was unlike standard military action where civilian areas
are avoided. The killing seemed indiscriminate. Women, children and
elderly alike were slaughtered.

The pretext for the invasion of this
Central American country was the capture of Panamanian leader,
General Manual Noriega, who US officials had indicted on drug
trafficking charges. This foreign head of state was to be deposed and
forcibly brought to this country where he would stand trial.

The actual motivation for the invasion was
the destruction of the Panamanian Defense Forces which. under
Noriega, had grown more nationalistic and less responsive to US
interests. Two coup attempts by alienated PDF officers were
unsuccessful due to US deception. Reports indicate US agents prompted
coup planners with assurances of assistance, but the US failed to
provide back-up at the critical moment when Noriega was captured by
the rebels, thus assuring failure of the coup.

A successful coup would have eliminated
the sole rationale for the invasion in the public mind, since it was
purportedly only Noriega's capture that was needed. The ensuing mass
arrests of rebels and sympathizers by Noriega effectively neutralized
the PDF as a threat to the US invasion, thus prompting President Bush
to order the 26,000 man assault.

In the ruthless offensive, at the time the
largest military action since the Viet Nam war, US troops stormed
through city streets with tanks and artillery fire. In the film
footage that escaped capture and destruction by the military, is
shown the indescribable carnage committed by US soldiers. Newsmen,
cameras in hand, lay dead in pools of blood. Crumpled remains of
cars, run over full length by US tanks, with the dead occupants still
inside were visible. The systematic, large-scale burning , house
after house, block after block of poor residential areas was evident.

The invasion was marked by unprecedented
press control in Panama where all forms of media were shut down,
newspapers, radio and television. In the US media coverage was little
better than that in Panama. American journalists were supplied with
material from the military which grossly manipulated the facts. In
the Pentagon briefings for the press, there were no reports that
reflected the holocaust which the military was creating. The scenes
of horror and atrocity perpetrated by their sons the American people
never saw. There were no interviews with those whose lives were
devastated and ruined. They were never shown the mass graves
excavated with military heavy equipment, where hundreds of civilians
were hurriedly buried by US troops. What was shown on the evening
news were interviews with upper middle class, English-speaking
Panamanians whose lives had not been disrupted and destroyed by the
attack and siege of the country. They spoke in glowing terms of the
operation before TV cameras and the American people.

The ostensibly "free press" in this
country was happy to display the distorted picture which the powerful
interests behind the scene dictated. The duplicity of the media is as
clear and visible as it is defenseless.

Well after the fact, some of the obviously
false news stories were corrected in various newspapers around the
country. The "controllers" of the news media do not require the
complete suppression of news, as Napoleon Bonaparte once said, "It is
sufficient to suppress the news until it no longer matters."

"Operation Just Cause", the code name for
the Panamanian invasion, can be seen as the unveiling of the methods
to be used by the United Nations' New World Order as it moves to
assume control of nation after nation in its quest for world
domination.